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🇫🇷 About Durov's arrest
⏰ The period of his detention was extended to at least 48 hours. And it was reported that the girl and guard who were with him during his detention were released.
📝 At the moment, Durov is being interrogated as a suspect on 12 charges in the case against an unidentified person. The decision to open an investigation was prepared in early July. The attached document (in French) is a press release with the list of charges.
⚠️ The accusations are primarily that Telegram, being encrypted, enables crimes including sharing child pornography, selling drugs, scamming, money laundering and so on, which makes him "complicit" in those crimes - and that he refuses to provide information and documents needed for "interceptions" (i.e. invasions of privacy) where authorised by French law.
⏰ The period of his detention was extended to at least 48 hours. And it was reported that the girl and guard who were with him during his detention were released.
📝 At the moment, Durov is being interrogated as a suspect on 12 charges in the case against an unidentified person. The decision to open an investigation was prepared in early July. The attached document (in French) is a press release with the list of charges.
⚠️ The accusations are primarily that Telegram, being encrypted, enables crimes including sharing child pornography, selling drugs, scamming, money laundering and so on, which makes him "complicit" in those crimes - and that he refuses to provide information and documents needed for "interceptions" (i.e. invasions of privacy) where authorised by French law.
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TON Society has launched #FreeDurov initiative. Let's sign this open letter and join it together! ⚡️
https://t.me/tgresistancebot/letter
https://t.me/tgresistancebot/letter
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Digital Resistance
We strongly condemn the arrest of Mr. Pavel Durov by the French authorities, a blatant attack on the freedom of expression and the right to private life.
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🇫🇷 Politico: France is trying to arrest Nikolay Durov
🚓 Arrest warrant for Pavel and his brother Nikolay (CTO Telegram) was issued in March 2024 by French authorities.
🧑⚖️ Today the judge will make a decision about Pavel Durov's future status in the criminal case.
🍷And six years ago, according to WSJ, Pavel Durov had a dinner with President Macron, which called him to move Telegram’s office in France.
🚓 Arrest warrant for Pavel and his brother Nikolay (CTO Telegram) was issued in March 2024 by French authorities.
🧑⚖️ Today the judge will make a decision about Pavel Durov's future status in the criminal case.
🍷And six years ago, according to WSJ, Pavel Durov had a dinner with President Macron, which called him to move Telegram’s office in France.
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Waiting for the court decision on Durov's case..🙈
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😄 Pavel Durov is free. He needs to pay 5 mln euro as bail and can't leave France until finishing of court case. But this is much better than it could be.
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Are you glad that Durov is free on bail?
Anonymous Poll
57%
Yes, it's a good final.
26%
Yes, but I'm still worried about his future.
16%
No, he is innocent and doesn't need any bails
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🇪🇺 The conflict between Telegram and the EU enters a new phase
🗽 Although Pavel Durov was released on €5 million bail, both European regulators and the French authorities have questions about the Telegram messenger. As soon as Pavel was arrested, I did some research on the issue and collected the main accusations from different EU countries.
📑 There are two main complaints: the use of Telegram by various opposition groups, some of which are considered extremists by EU authorities, and the activity of scammers, drug dealers and other criminals in the messenger. Telegram does not usually delete opposition groups and does not hand over correspondence between them to law enforcement agencies.
🧑⚖️ To fix this, BIPT - the regulator in Belgium, where Telegram is considered a foreign company - is checking whether the number of users of the platform in the EU is really less than 45 million people (officially 41 million). If this number is large enough, Telegram will receive VLOP status in Europe - “very large online platform”, a status that will impose more obligations and restrictions on the messenger as it interacts with EU authorities.
⭐️ More information is in this article. If you want to support Crypto Penetration, put stars under this post!
🗽 Although Pavel Durov was released on €5 million bail, both European regulators and the French authorities have questions about the Telegram messenger. As soon as Pavel was arrested, I did some research on the issue and collected the main accusations from different EU countries.
📑 There are two main complaints: the use of Telegram by various opposition groups, some of which are considered extremists by EU authorities, and the activity of scammers, drug dealers and other criminals in the messenger. Telegram does not usually delete opposition groups and does not hand over correspondence between them to law enforcement agencies.
🧑⚖️ To fix this, BIPT - the regulator in Belgium, where Telegram is considered a foreign company - is checking whether the number of users of the platform in the EU is really less than 45 million people (officially 41 million). If this number is large enough, Telegram will receive VLOP status in Europe - “very large online platform”, a status that will impose more obligations and restrictions on the messenger as it interacts with EU authorities.
⭐️ More information is in this article. If you want to support Crypto Penetration, put stars under this post!
Hackernoon
Pavel Durov Arrest: Is This a Fight Against Crime or an Attempt to Censor Telegram? | HackerNoon
Why Pavel Durov was arrested in France? A description of legal conflict between Telegram and EU authorities.
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📉 Market goes down despite Fed rate cut
🗓 Bitcoin - $58,000, Ethereum - $2,500. September is historically not the best month for crypto, according to statistics. Andrei Grachev from DWF Labs recommends to “tighten belts” this month.
💭 On the other hand, the Fed rate cut is almost a done deal. So why is crypto still falling? Arthur Hayes writes that while risk assets are falling because reverse repurchasing (RRP) is still more favorable at 5.3% than the US Treasury's T-bills, it won't last long.
🕐 On Tuesday, we are expecting the US manufacturing PMI data - and the probability of a rate cut is likely to increase. In addition, rates are already being cut around the world, which is also a positive factor for crypto. Nevertheless, the effect of this reduction may come not in September, but later.
🗓 Bitcoin - $58,000, Ethereum - $2,500. September is historically not the best month for crypto, according to statistics. Andrei Grachev from DWF Labs recommends to “tighten belts” this month.
💭 On the other hand, the Fed rate cut is almost a done deal. So why is crypto still falling? Arthur Hayes writes that while risk assets are falling because reverse repurchasing (RRP) is still more favorable at 5.3% than the US Treasury's T-bills, it won't last long.
🕐 On Tuesday, we are expecting the US manufacturing PMI data - and the probability of a rate cut is likely to increase. In addition, rates are already being cut around the world, which is also a positive factor for crypto. Nevertheless, the effect of this reduction may come not in September, but later.
X (formerly Twitter)
Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) on X
My theory on why Fed rate cuts aren't going to plan.
Since JAYPOW annc Sept rate cut at J-Hole, $BTC down 10%, y? I thot rate cuts were good for risk assets.
RRP pays 5.3% no T-bill under 1-yr maturity pays more. MMF will move money from T-bill -> RRP which…
Since JAYPOW annc Sept rate cut at J-Hole, $BTC down 10%, y? I thot rate cuts were good for risk assets.
RRP pays 5.3% no T-bill under 1-yr maturity pays more. MMF will move money from T-bill -> RRP which…
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🇺🇸 Will Gensler quit?
🗽 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has predicted that Gary Gensler will leave the SEC after the US Presidential Election regardless of who wins. Garlinghouse believes that Democrats are now increasingly softening their stance on cryptocurrencies to attract electoral votes.
🦅 The negative attitude of the Republicans towards the head of the SEC means his resignation after a Republican victory is practically inevitable.
🗽 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has predicted that Gary Gensler will leave the SEC after the US Presidential Election regardless of who wins. Garlinghouse believes that Democrats are now increasingly softening their stance on cryptocurrencies to attract electoral votes.
🦅 The negative attitude of the Republicans towards the head of the SEC means his resignation after a Republican victory is practically inevitable.
Decrypt
Ripple CEO Predicts SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s Exit, Whoever Wins Election - Decrypt
Brad Garlinghouse made a “gentleman’s bet” that Gary Gensler’s time as SEC Chair will end, regardless of how the U.S. election unfolds.
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🇺🇸CFTC issued an order against Uniswap
👮 Uniswap Labs was ordered to pay a $175,000 fine to CFTC and to stop violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) by illegal commodity derivative trading. The investigation against the largest DEX has been launched by the New York State Attorney's Office and Uniswap investors - large venture funds a16z and Union Square Ventures - will be questioned in the case.
🚩 On the one hand, this is not a good event for the industry - other crypto exchanges and DEXs operating in the United States may be dragged into the same investigation.
💸 On the other hand, the amount of the fine is ridiculously small for the volume of Uniswap's business, and CFTC regulations are much more lenient than those of the SEC. It seems more important that the CFTC is setting a precedent in this case, to take control over the regulation of crypto exchanges and DEXs.
👮 Uniswap Labs was ordered to pay a $175,000 fine to CFTC and to stop violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) by illegal commodity derivative trading. The investigation against the largest DEX has been launched by the New York State Attorney's Office and Uniswap investors - large venture funds a16z and Union Square Ventures - will be questioned in the case.
🚩 On the one hand, this is not a good event for the industry - other crypto exchanges and DEXs operating in the United States may be dragged into the same investigation.
💸 On the other hand, the amount of the fine is ridiculously small for the volume of Uniswap's business, and CFTC regulations are much more lenient than those of the SEC. It seems more important that the CFTC is setting a precedent in this case, to take control over the regulation of crypto exchanges and DEXs.
www.cftc.gov
CFTC Issues Order Against Uniswap Labs for Offering Illegal Digital Asset Derivatives Trading
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Which regulator is better for DeFi in the US?
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58%
CFTC
23%
SEC
19%
DeFi protocols and DEXes do not need regulation.
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Pavel Durov has published a detailed statement about his arrest. There's information online about the FBI's wanted for him, by the way. Must be a fake.
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Forwarded from Pavel Durov (Paul Du Rove)
❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.
This was surprising for several reasons:
1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.
2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.
3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.
Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.
Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.
All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.
However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.
This was surprising for several reasons:
1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.
2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.
3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.
Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.
Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.
All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.
However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏
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🇺🇸 Who is rocking the crypto market?
📉 The crypto market felt very uncertain last week, with the price of BTC falling from $58,000 to $53,000 and altcoins even more affected.
🙀 The reason has not changed: fear of recession. Despite the Fed's promise to cut rates on September 18, the Nasdaq index falling (by 2%). Against this background and as a risky asset, crypto is "shaking" even more.
⏳ The Fed's rate cut is good, but the regulator is probably lagging behind. It may take a long time - from a couple of months to half a year - until the effect of the rate cut (or multiple cuts) affects the markets.
🗽 Arthur Hayes, for instance, is confident that the Democrats will do something before the presidential elections in November. So probably the bull run will not happen in September, but some changes are possible in October or November, before the elections.
📉 The crypto market felt very uncertain last week, with the price of BTC falling from $58,000 to $53,000 and altcoins even more affected.
🙀 The reason has not changed: fear of recession. Despite the Fed's promise to cut rates on September 18, the Nasdaq index falling (by 2%). Against this background and as a risky asset, crypto is "shaking" even more.
⏳ The Fed's rate cut is good, but the regulator is probably lagging behind. It may take a long time - from a couple of months to half a year - until the effect of the rate cut (or multiple cuts) affects the markets.
🗽 Arthur Hayes, for instance, is confident that the Democrats will do something before the presidential elections in November. So probably the bull run will not happen in September, but some changes are possible in October or November, before the elections.
Medium
Boom Times… Delayed
Like Pavlovian dogs, we all believe the correct response to rate cuts is to BTFD. This behavioural response is rooted in the recent…
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🇧🇷 Maybe move to Brazil?
🧑⚖️ Recently, Brazil's supreme court banned social network X from operating in the country due to non-compliance with a court order.
💯 Nevertheless, as the largest LatAm economy, Brazil is a very large crypto market and a place for fintech and digital innovation. For instance, it's now testing a joint CBDC program with Mastercard.
🪪 How can you get a Brazilian passport and how easy is it to transact crypto legally here?
🌱 Spoiler: very easy to get even without licenses and a passport; there is an option to get one in two years. More about all this in a new article.
🧑⚖️ Recently, Brazil's supreme court banned social network X from operating in the country due to non-compliance with a court order.
💯 Nevertheless, as the largest LatAm economy, Brazil is a very large crypto market and a place for fintech and digital innovation. For instance, it's now testing a joint CBDC program with Mastercard.
🪪 How can you get a Brazilian passport and how easy is it to transact crypto legally here?
🌱 Spoiler: very easy to get even without licenses and a passport; there is an option to get one in two years. More about all this in a new article.
Hackernoon
Brazil: Hot Spot for Nomads and Biggest Fintech Market in LatAm
Overview of Brazil perspectives in terms of immigration and local crypto regulations.
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🐹 Hamster listing during positive market conditions
📈 Last week was unexpectedly pleasant - from September 9 to September 14, Bitcoin rose sharply from $52,000 to $60,000. The market probably played off the news of the long-awaited Fed rate cut on September 18th.
✈️ On this dynamic, the TON rate also demonstrated growth, from $4.90 to $5.80. Furthermore, Immediately after the Fed rate cut, the TON community awaits two important listing events on Binance: Hamster Combat (HMSTR) on September 26 and Catizen on September 20.
❤️🔥 The moment is chosen quite well during positive news for the crypto market. However, some analytics forecast that the TON blockchain may stop for a while during one of these events.
📈 Last week was unexpectedly pleasant - from September 9 to September 14, Bitcoin rose sharply from $52,000 to $60,000. The market probably played off the news of the long-awaited Fed rate cut on September 18th.
❤️🔥 The moment is chosen quite well during positive news for the crypto market. However, some analytics forecast that the TON blockchain may stop for a while during one of these events.
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🇦🇪 Bybit got local license in UAE
🏛 Dubai’s main crypto regulator, VARA has approved Bybit's application for a VASP license. This means that Bybit now can operate in Dubai with local retail and institutional investors. The company was already fully licensed for operations in Kazakhstan two weeks ago.
🛡 Bybit is currently one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world and is second only to Binance in terms of trading volume. Obtaining licenses in UAE and Kazakhstan secures the company from potential legal conflicts with US and EU authorities. The company was previously forced to suspend operations in France due to problems with local fintech regulator, AMF.
🏛 Dubai’s main crypto regulator, VARA has approved Bybit's application for a VASP license. This means that Bybit now can operate in Dubai with local retail and institutional investors. The company was already fully licensed for operations in Kazakhstan two weeks ago.
🛡 Bybit is currently one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world and is second only to Binance in terms of trading volume. Obtaining licenses in UAE and Kazakhstan secures the company from potential legal conflicts with US and EU authorities. The company was previously forced to suspend operations in France due to problems with local fintech regulator, AMF.
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